Alive Quote by Joseph Campbell

“Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.…

— John Fowles

“Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them.…

— John Fowles The Magus

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

— John Fowles

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

— Don DeLillo

... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it is feeble-minded…

— Ruth Benedict

I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always does to war. It is not social or political.…

— John Fowles

War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is…

— Woodrow Wilson

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without…

— Francesca Lia Block

For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put…

— Pearl S. Buck

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going…

— Blaise Pascal

“I should like you also to reflect that its events could have taken place only in a world where man considers himself superior to…

— John Fowles

Shall I tell you why young men love war? . . . In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousand answers! In…

— Mary Doria Russell